Sunday, March 27, 2011
Blog Post 9
In this weeks blog post we had to read a teachers reflection of their first year as an elementary teacher. This teachers name is Mr. McClung and he was teaching in Noel, Missouri. He has really interesting points about improving your teaching methods. One of the more important topics he stresses is Communication in the work place so there is not any teacher conflicts, its always easier to work in a comfortable environment with no hostility. Another topic he touches on is not expecting too much from your students. Having high expectations for your students is a good thing but if they do not reach these expectations pick them up and help them do better next time. Something that he said that really caught my eye was no matter how much you plan there is no such thin as a perfect lesson. You need to be able to adapt in the middle of the lesson and work with your students to better help them understand the lecture.
Comments For Kids 4, 5, & 6
In my fourth comments for kids I choose to comment on Alexandria blog. She is a Year 6 student at Pt England School in Auckland, NZ. Her teachers name is Miss Garden and her blog post was about getting to use their computers in class. This is what I had to say:
Hi Alexandria, my name is Justin Hyde. I am an EDM310 student at the University of South Alabama. I think that it is very cool that your class gets to use laptops. I wish I would have had the chance to use laptops in class when I was your age.
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In my fifth comments for kids I choose to comment on Nathaniel's blog. He goes to Pt England School and is in Year 7. His blog post was about how to layout and set up a tent. This is what I had to say:
Hello Nathaniel,My name is Justin Hyde and I am a student in Dr. Stranges EDM 310 class at the University of South Alabama. You can follow my blog at hydejustinedm310.blogspot.com . I thought you had great directions to assemble a tent. If I ever go camping I will make sure to print out these directions.
In my sixth comment for kids I choose to comment on Shawnee's blog. She is student in Mrs. Phares' fourth period class. Shawnee's blog post was about people who are bullies. This is what I had to say:
Hello Shawnee,
My name is Justin Hyde and I am a student in Dr. Stranges EDM 310 class at the University of South Alabama. I Like that you shared your feelings about bullies. I also think that it is sad when people get bullied. Bullies pick on others because they are need to feel stronger and better than the people they pick on.
Hi Alexandria, my name is Justin Hyde. I am an EDM310 student at the University of South Alabama. I think that it is very cool that your class gets to use laptops. I wish I would have had the chance to use laptops in class when I was your age.
"http://muyskens.com/photo2.html""Photobucket">In my fifth comments for kids I choose to comment on Nathaniel's blog. He goes to Pt England School and is in Year 7. His blog post was about how to layout and set up a tent. This is what I had to say:
Hello Nathaniel,My name is Justin Hyde and I am a student in Dr. Stranges EDM 310 class at the University of South Alabama. You can follow my blog at hydejustinedm310.blogspot.com . I thought you had great directions to assemble a tent. If I ever go camping I will make sure to print out these directions.
In my sixth comment for kids I choose to comment on Shawnee's blog. She is student in Mrs. Phares' fourth period class. Shawnee's blog post was about people who are bullies. This is what I had to say:
Hello Shawnee,
My name is Justin Hyde and I am a student in Dr. Stranges EDM 310 class at the University of South Alabama. I Like that you shared your feelings about bullies. I also think that it is sad when people get bullied. Bullies pick on others because they are need to feel stronger and better than the people they pick on.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Blog Post 8
Richard Miller: This Is How We Dream Part 1
Richard Miller is a Educator in the English Department at Rutgers University in New Jersey. His video “This Is How We Dream Part 1” starts out talking about in his childhood family he was surrounded with books. This was not a bad thing because he loved books and often read them growing up. Reading is what ended up inspiring him to an English teacher. When I was younger my mother also instilled the fact that reading is very important, and would make me read on a daily basis. Now looking back I am very thankful for that.
He later goes on to talk about how reading and writing is evolving. Once where you had to rent books from a library and write with pen in paper is now something of the past. In my two and half years of college not one time have I had to turn in a paper that was not typed. For one thing teachers don’t have to try and read sloppy hand writing and a typed paper just looks nice and neat. Another advantage of typing a paper is that computers have spell check and will find grammatical errors in your writing for you. Also I have rarely used any of the Libraries that we have on campus. I find it much easier, as do many students I have talked to, to just research the information at home on my personal computer. Not only is this easier but I believe it to be much faster.
Richard Miller: This Is How We Dream Part 2
In Part Two of Richard Miller's video he talks about how do we incorporate technology in to today's classroom. Students no longer want to read off a piece of paper, they would rather have visual aids to go along with their readings. Kids as young as elementary grades are being taught to use computer in school. This was something that I was not introduced to until I was in middle school. Kids are fascinated with technology and this could be used as a great instrument in keeping kids of all ages interested in learning in schools. Educators have no choice, in my opinion, to not use some form of technology in their classrooms. Actually I would go as far as to say that they should use as much technology that they can possibly get their hands on.
EDM310 is Different
Chipper was a student who just thought she had it all figured out. Her biggest problem was being a procrastinator. In EDM 310 Procrastinating will put you in a hole that you will not be able to get out. When they say 9 hours a week, they don’t mean wait till Sunday at try to finish everything in 9 hours. If this is your philosophy in this class good luck. Many times I have spent a lot more than just 9 hours working on our projects, comments, and blog post every week. If I had to make a video like this one I would try to focus it on something like the Importance on coming to the lab for help. Many times I have got stuck on projects and needed help in which the lab was extremely helpful in explain everything in detail and not doing it for me but showing me how to do it so that I could do it myself in the future.
Learn to Change, Change to Learn
One of the very last things that was on this video was “the death of education, but the dawn of learning”, this statement really summed up the whole entire video for me. This video talks about the fact that we shouldn’t be making our children memorize facts that they will forget after there next test and never have to use again in their life. We should be teaching our children how to find information, use the information, and communicate with other students. We should be letting our student’s use social networking for educational purposes and using the internet for researching and finding important information they need in class. Teaching our children useful stuff they will need in the real world such as jobs after school, not just making them memorize stuff for standardized test.
The Secret Powers of Time by Philip Zambardo
This video was very well put together and the way everything was being drawn out really kept me entertained and interested in what was being said. One disturbing fact that stood out to me was that one child drops out of school every nine seconds. Peoples life’s are busy and a lot of people should take more time to sit down and at least have a family dinner a couple times a week if nothing less. Family has always been very important to me and no matter how busy my schedule is I try to always make to time to call both my parents and my siblings. Although I would like to see them more than I do, it is just not really something I can do with my schedule as busy as it stays with school and work.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us :by David Pink
What motivates people...? Clearly many people in the world are motivated by money but this shows a different aspect than most people would think. He gives three factors that lead to better performance as well as personal satisfaction, Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. Paying people more does not motivate them more, but these three thing are what can motivate people to do astonishing workk.
Richard Miller is a Educator in the English Department at Rutgers University in New Jersey. His video “This Is How We Dream Part 1” starts out talking about in his childhood family he was surrounded with books. This was not a bad thing because he loved books and often read them growing up. Reading is what ended up inspiring him to an English teacher. When I was younger my mother also instilled the fact that reading is very important, and would make me read on a daily basis. Now looking back I am very thankful for that.
He later goes on to talk about how reading and writing is evolving. Once where you had to rent books from a library and write with pen in paper is now something of the past. In my two and half years of college not one time have I had to turn in a paper that was not typed. For one thing teachers don’t have to try and read sloppy hand writing and a typed paper just looks nice and neat. Another advantage of typing a paper is that computers have spell check and will find grammatical errors in your writing for you. Also I have rarely used any of the Libraries that we have on campus. I find it much easier, as do many students I have talked to, to just research the information at home on my personal computer. Not only is this easier but I believe it to be much faster.
Richard Miller: This Is How We Dream Part 2
In Part Two of Richard Miller's video he talks about how do we incorporate technology in to today's classroom. Students no longer want to read off a piece of paper, they would rather have visual aids to go along with their readings. Kids as young as elementary grades are being taught to use computer in school. This was something that I was not introduced to until I was in middle school. Kids are fascinated with technology and this could be used as a great instrument in keeping kids of all ages interested in learning in schools. Educators have no choice, in my opinion, to not use some form of technology in their classrooms. Actually I would go as far as to say that they should use as much technology that they can possibly get their hands on.
EDM310 is Different
Chipper was a student who just thought she had it all figured out. Her biggest problem was being a procrastinator. In EDM 310 Procrastinating will put you in a hole that you will not be able to get out. When they say 9 hours a week, they don’t mean wait till Sunday at try to finish everything in 9 hours. If this is your philosophy in this class good luck. Many times I have spent a lot more than just 9 hours working on our projects, comments, and blog post every week. If I had to make a video like this one I would try to focus it on something like the Importance on coming to the lab for help. Many times I have got stuck on projects and needed help in which the lab was extremely helpful in explain everything in detail and not doing it for me but showing me how to do it so that I could do it myself in the future.
Learn to Change, Change to Learn
One of the very last things that was on this video was “the death of education, but the dawn of learning”, this statement really summed up the whole entire video for me. This video talks about the fact that we shouldn’t be making our children memorize facts that they will forget after there next test and never have to use again in their life. We should be teaching our children how to find information, use the information, and communicate with other students. We should be letting our student’s use social networking for educational purposes and using the internet for researching and finding important information they need in class. Teaching our children useful stuff they will need in the real world such as jobs after school, not just making them memorize stuff for standardized test.
The Secret Powers of Time by Philip Zambardo
This video was very well put together and the way everything was being drawn out really kept me entertained and interested in what was being said. One disturbing fact that stood out to me was that one child drops out of school every nine seconds. Peoples life’s are busy and a lot of people should take more time to sit down and at least have a family dinner a couple times a week if nothing less. Family has always been very important to me and no matter how busy my schedule is I try to always make to time to call both my parents and my siblings. Although I would like to see them more than I do, it is just not really something I can do with my schedule as busy as it stays with school and work.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us :by David Pink
What motivates people...? Clearly many people in the world are motivated by money but this shows a different aspect than most people would think. He gives three factors that lead to better performance as well as personal satisfaction, Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. Paying people more does not motivate them more, but these three thing are what can motivate people to do astonishing workk.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Blog Post 7
Professor Randy Pausch has a very touching story. He has multiple tumors in his liver and was told he will only live healthy for three months. Although from just listening to and looking at Randy you would have no idea. He looks like any ordinary person and is in shape he even does clapping push-ups.
He starts off his speech with touching on his childhood goals and lets you know that you should never be told no or that you cannot be something if you apply yourself to it. He has a very interesting point about parents putting their kids into sports. He says that parents place their children in sports at young ages not to make them professional athletes but to install lifelong lessons such as teamwork, cooperation, responsibilities, leadership skills, and many others.
He also makes some valid points while he was a professor teaching a visual arts class. He talks about an instance where he gave a two week project and all his students came back when the two weeks were over with overwhelmingly outstanding work. He was so shocked he talked to his mentor and asked for advice what to do. His mentor explains that if he seems content with their work then they will not have any room for improvement and they will also seem content and then they will not try any harder. He later goes on to tell that there work was so great that on the day their projects were due they would have audiences to present their art work too in class.
At the end of the video he goes to say that he believes in Karma. He says even if you are wrong you should say sorry and do not lie tell the truth. He says that yesterday was his wife’s birthday and even though this is called his last speech and he talks less about himself and focuses the last part on getting the crowd involved in singing happy birthday to her because she did not get the proper birthday. He says luck is where preparation meets opportunity. After the whole speech is over he says this talk was not for you it was for his kids.
He starts off his speech with touching on his childhood goals and lets you know that you should never be told no or that you cannot be something if you apply yourself to it. He has a very interesting point about parents putting their kids into sports. He says that parents place their children in sports at young ages not to make them professional athletes but to install lifelong lessons such as teamwork, cooperation, responsibilities, leadership skills, and many others.
He also makes some valid points while he was a professor teaching a visual arts class. He talks about an instance where he gave a two week project and all his students came back when the two weeks were over with overwhelmingly outstanding work. He was so shocked he talked to his mentor and asked for advice what to do. His mentor explains that if he seems content with their work then they will not have any room for improvement and they will also seem content and then they will not try any harder. He later goes on to tell that there work was so great that on the day their projects were due they would have audiences to present their art work too in class.
At the end of the video he goes to say that he believes in Karma. He says even if you are wrong you should say sorry and do not lie tell the truth. He says that yesterday was his wife’s birthday and even though this is called his last speech and he talks less about himself and focuses the last part on getting the crowd involved in singing happy birthday to her because she did not get the proper birthday. He says luck is where preparation meets opportunity. After the whole speech is over he says this talk was not for you it was for his kids.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Comments 4 Teachers 2
The teacher’s blog whom I was assigned to follow was David Hopkins. David has been a learning technologist at the University of Bournemouth since the year 2007. David graduated in 1996 from Kingston University.
The Horizon Report 2011 – ‘eBooks’ #eBooks #mLearning #eLearning
The first blog post that I read was dealing with eBooks. The 2011 Horizon Report says “As the electronic book moves further from a digital reproduction of a printed piece, some writers are seeing it become something far richer, allowing journeys through worlds real and Imagined, undertaken nit alone but in company with other readers.” This is the web address for his Blog: http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/the-future-of-ebooks-my-vision-ebooks/ . I think this is going to be the future of the book. My little brother is only ten years old and he downloads his books onto a Kindle. My mom can easily buy him books to read without even having to leave the house and for a low price.
Can your boss ask for access to your social media accounts? #SoMe
The second blog post I read was about having to give your employer your social media (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace) passwords so they could have complete access to your accounts and private information. It goes on to say that if you deny your employer access to your social media accounts then it looks like you have something to hide. I personally don’t think that they have the right to even ask for this in the first place. His Blog address for this very interesting blog is: http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/. Overall I was very much impressed with my teacher’s blog from an educational viewpoint.
The Horizon Report 2011 – ‘eBooks’ #eBooks #mLearning #eLearning
The first blog post that I read was dealing with eBooks. The 2011 Horizon Report says “As the electronic book moves further from a digital reproduction of a printed piece, some writers are seeing it become something far richer, allowing journeys through worlds real and Imagined, undertaken nit alone but in company with other readers.” This is the web address for his Blog: http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/the-future-of-ebooks-my-vision-ebooks/ . I think this is going to be the future of the book. My little brother is only ten years old and he downloads his books onto a Kindle. My mom can easily buy him books to read without even having to leave the house and for a low price.
Can your boss ask for access to your social media accounts? #SoMe
The second blog post I read was about having to give your employer your social media (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace) passwords so they could have complete access to your accounts and private information. It goes on to say that if you deny your employer access to your social media accounts then it looks like you have something to hide. I personally don’t think that they have the right to even ask for this in the first place. His Blog address for this very interesting blog is: http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/. Overall I was very much impressed with my teacher’s blog from an educational viewpoint.
Project #10 - First PLN Progress Report
My Personal Learning Network, also known as a PLN, is coming along really well. I chose to use Symbaloo.Com to create my PLN. It has been fun to be able to pick and choose what websites I like and be able to have them all on one page. My Personal Learning Network includes websites such as the EDM class blog, my personal blog, USA online, SouthAlabama.edu, links to all of my e-mail accounts, youtube, and one of my personal favorites, ESPN! It is so much more convenient to have all of the website I need on one page rather than having to flip back and forth from window to window. I also have links to my Twitter and Facebook accounts for my personal use. So far, my PLN has proven to be very beneficial for me and I will continue to use it. I think that with all of the things teachers have to keep up with that PLNs make it much easier to do so.
This is what my PLN looks like so far
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